Seabrookers Are Reading

Becoming Madam Secretary
by Stephanie Dray
Raised on tales of her revolutionary ancestors, Frances Perkins arrives in New York City at the turn of the century, armed with her trusty parasol and an unyielding determination to make a difference. She works hard by day in the tenements, and by night discovers the flourishing social scene in Greenwich Village. She meets a young lawyer named Franklin Delano Roosevelt at a tea dance. Sparks fly in all the wrong directions. She thinks he’s a rich, arrogant dilettante who gets by on good looks and a famous name. He thinks she’s a priggish bluestocking and insufferable do-gooder. Neither knows it yet, but over the next twenty years, they will form a historic partnership that will carry them both to the White House. (2024; Nonfiction)

Life and Death and Giants
by Ronald J. Rindo
A young Amish woman delivers a baby that’s eighteen pounds and twenty-seven inches long, and no one in Lakota, WI, knows what to make of the boy. Raised by his brother in rural poverty, Gabriel Fisher walks early, communicates with animals, and possesses extraordinary athletic abilities. At seventeen, Gabriel is discovered by the local football coach, setting off a transformative journey. Rindo weaves together an unforgettable story of faith, family, buried secrets, and everyday miracles. (2025; Fiction)

Michael Without Apology
by Catherine Ryan Hyde
Michael Woodbine was seven years old when a near-fatal fireworks accident scarred him and led to his placement in foster care. Now a college freshman, he is still trying to hide the effects of his trauma from his classmates, his adoptive family, and himself. When Michael signs up for a film class, he meets Robert Dunning, a teacher who wears his own scars unapologetically. Robert encourages Michael to make a documentary that explores body image and self-perception. Michael places an ad seeking people who feel unattractive and rejected by society–and is surprised to learn that this is essentially everyone. As he collects these stories–and finally tells his own–Michael feels more connected to the world than he ever has before. (2025; Fiction)

The Women on Platform Two
by Laura Anthony
In 1970s Dublin, all forms of contraception are strictly forbidden, but an intrepid group of women will risk everything to change that in this sweeping, timely novel inspired by a remarkable and little-known true story. (2025; Fiction)

I See You’ve Called in Dead
by John Kenney
Bud Stanley is an obituary writer who is afraid to live. Yes, his wife recently left him for a ‘far more interesting’ man. Yes, he goes on a particularly awful blind date with a woman who brings her ex. And yes, he has too many glasses of Scotch one night and proceeds to pen and publish his own obituary. The newspaper wants to fire him. But now the company’s system has him listed as dead. And the company can’t fire a dead person. (2025; Fiction)

Looking for Terry
by Terry Bradshaw
In his first memoir in more than two decades, Bradshaw finally pulls back the curtain on the persona the public thinks it knows. With trademark candor and wit, he examines how a reputation for being “not too smart” followed him throughout his career–and how he learned to embrace it rather than fight it. By leaning into the jokes, Bradshaw discovered that humor could be both a shield and a superpower. The result was the goofy, always-game-for-a-laugh Terry Bradshaw that fans came to love. But behind the punchlines was a more complicated man, one who sometimes felt trapped by the very character he helped create. (2026; Nonfiction)

Stitched
by Eli McCann
Betty Lou Dearden has been a member of the Ogden Quilters Association for more than twenty years when it is announced that the biggest quilting competition in the country is coming to Utah. With the clock ticking and a chance to finally beat their long-time rival quilting circle, the women welcome two young gay men to their group as they bicker their way to an award-worthy entry. With disarming humor and extraordinary heart, Eli McCann takes readers deep into the cozy but cutthroat world of competitive quilting and the sometimes-messy friendships that shape our lives. (2026; Fiction)

The Calamity Club
by Kathryn Stockett
Stockett’s follow-up to The Help traces the intersecting lives of an exasperated older sister, a precocious orphan, and an enterprising woman in 1933 Mississippi. Stockett holds the reader’s attention with her colorful characters. By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, this offers a memorable view into the impossible choices faced by women in the Great Depression. Experience enhanced with the audio edition. (2026; Fiction)

Enormous Wings
by Laurie Frankel
At seventy-seven, Pepper Mills is too old to be a stranger in a strange land. She didn’t choose the Vista View Retirement Community of Austin, Texas–that would be her three grown children–but when she grudgingly moves in, she not only makes new friends, she falls in love. Then the exhaustion, vomiting, and confusion start. Her children and grandchildren worry it’s cancer, dementia, a stroke. But a raft of tests later, the news is even more shocking: she’s pregnant. Once word gets out, everyone wants a piece of her: the press and the paparazzi, activists and medical researchers, all descending on Vista View as Pepper tries to determine her next move. Soon Pepper has some hard decisions to make–and some she’s not allowed to make. (2026; Fiction)

Gone Before Goodbye
by Reese Witherspoon and Harlan Coben
This collaboration details the story of disgraced Army combat surgeon Maggie McCabe, who takes a secretive, high-paying medical job overseas for a mysterious client after losing her license. When the patient vanishes, Maggie becomes a fugitive. (2025; Fiction)

The Listeners
by Maggie Stiefvater
As World War II shakes the globe, a secret State Department deal turns the luxury Avallon Hotel and Spa in the West Virginia mountains into a gilded holding pen for hundreds of captured Axis diplomats and Nazi sympathizers. June Hudson, general manager, must keep the peace, manage a weary staff, and cater to the enemy with a smile, all while navigating the dangerous, healing—and potentially threatening—mystical “sweetwater” mineral springs that flow beneath the floorboards. (2025; Fiction)

The Maid
by Nita Prose
This cozy, character-driven mystery novel follows Molly Gray, a socially awkward and neurodivergent 25-year-old maid at the luxury Regency Grand Hotel. When she discovers a guest is dead, Molly becomes the prime suspect in the murder. An unexpected band of allies and friends she never knew she had help her clear her name and uncover the truth behind the crime. (2022; Fiction)