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Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 18 mins)
• By Seth Grahame-Smith
• Narrated By Scott Holst
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While Abraham Lincoln is widely lauded for saving a Union and freeing millions of slaves, his valiant fight against the forces of the undead has remained in the shadows for hundreds of years. That is, until Seth Grahame-Smith stumbled upon The Secret Journal of Abraham Lincoln, and became the first living person to lay eyes on it in more than 140 years.

Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 45 mins)
• By Joshua Wolf Shenk
• Narrated By Richard M. Davidson

Drawing on a wealth of his own research and the work of other Lincoln scholars, Shenk reveals how the sixteenth president harnessed his depression to fuel his astonishing success. Lincoln found the solace and tactics he needed to deal with the nation's worst crisis in the "coping strategies" he developed over a lifetime of persevering through depressive episodes and personal tragedies.

Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 32 mins)
• By Mitchell Zuckoff
• Narrated By Mitchell Zuckoff
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On May 13, 1945, 24 American servicemen and WACs boarded a transport plane for a sightseeing trip over “Shangri-La,” a beautiful and mysterious valley deep within the jungle-covered mountains of Dutch New Guinea. Unlike the peaceful Tibetan monks of James Hilton’s best-selling novel Lost Horizon, this Shangri-La was home to spear-carrying tribesmen, warriors rumored to be cannibals. But the pleasure tour became an unforgettable battle for survival when the plane crashed. Miraculously, three passengers pulled through.

Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Doomed Quest to Clean up Sin-Loving New York

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 28 mins)
• By Richard Zacks
• Narrated By Joe Ochman
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In the 1890s, New York City was America’s financial, manufacturing, and entertainment capital, and also its preferred destination for sin, teeming with forty thousand prostitutes, glittery casinos, and all-night dives. Police cap­tains took hefty bribes to see nothing while reformers writhed in frustration. With cameos by Stephen Crane, Mark Twain, and a horde of very angry cops, Island of Vice is an unforgettable snap­shot of turn-of-the-century New York in all its seedy glory and a brilliant miniature of one of America’s most colorful presidents.

Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 47 mins)
• By Candice Millard
• Narrated By Paul Michael
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James A. Garfield may have been the most extraordinary man ever elected president. Born into abject poverty, he rose to become a wunderkind scholar, a Civil War hero, and a renowned and admired reformist congressman. Nominated for president against his will, he engaged in a fierce battle with the corrupt political establishment. But four months after his inauguration, a deranged office seeker tracked Garfield down and shot him in the back. But the shot didn’t kill Garfield. The drama of what hap­pened subsequently is a powerful story of a nation in tur­moil.

The Assassin's Accomplice: Mary Surratt and the Plot to Kill Abraham Lincoln

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 21 mins)
• By Kate Clifford Larson
• Narrated By Laural Merlington
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Set against the backdrop of the Civil War, The Assassin's Accomplice tells the gripping, true story of the conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln through the eyes of its only female participant, the first woman ever to be executed by the federal government of the United States.

Mary Surratt, a Confederate sympathizer, ran the boardinghouse in Washington where the conspirators, including her rebel son, John Surratt, met to plan the assassination.

The depth of Surratt's complicity in the assassination of President Lincoln has been debated since the day she was arrested on April 17, 1865.

Union 1812: The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 9 mins)
• By A. J. Langguth
• Narrated By Grover Gardner

This dramatic account of the War of 1812 fills a surprising gap in the popular literature of the nation's formative years. It is this war, followed closely on the War of Independence, that established the young nation as a permanent power and proved its claim to Manifest Destiny.

Booth

• ABRIDGED (5 hrs and 45 mins)
• By David Robertson
• Narrated By Edward Herrmann

A powerful evocation of a dangerous, chaotic, and tragic time, Booth is the story of the most infamous assassination in our history, as well as a riveting portrait of an enigmatic figure who continues to haunt the American imagination. Narrated by the only surviving conspirator in the plot to kill Abraham Lincoln, Booth tells the story of John Surratt, a young man who falls under the spell of the charismatic and captivating John Wilkes Booth.