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Fall books: 20 nonfiction titles you don't want to miss

From the energy crisis to The Doors, from Hitler’s Germany to Rin Tin Tin, here are the nonfiction titles that have readers buzzing this fall.

- Marjorie Kehe, Monitor book editor

1. "RIN TIN TIN: The Life and the Legend," by Susan Orlean

RIN TIN TIN: The Life and the Legend, by Susan Orlean (Simon & Schuster, 336 pp.)
New Yorker writer Susan Orlean (“The Orchid Thief”) spent a decade researching the story of canine star Rin Tin Tin and has produced a must-read book that is both an excellent piece of cultural history and a remarkable story of the animal-human bond. (October)


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