In Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend (Simon & Schuster, 325 pp.) New Yorker writer Susan Orlean tells the larger-than-life story behind canine movie star Rin Tin Tin. Monitor reviewer Heller McAlpin calls Orlean’s book “an eloquent, powerful inquiry into ‘how we create heroes and what we want from them,’ and about what endures in our culture.” (CSMonitor.com, 9/27/11)