Complete book coverage for April 4, 2010.

New books consider our unending quest to slow down daily life. Plus: Timothy Leary and Huston Smith hold an unexpected dialogue.

In new mysteries by Jesse Kellerman and Angela S. Choi, the most unreliable part of the story isn’t the situation -- it’s the narrator.

Weintraub worked with Elvis and Sinatra. He headed a studio. And now he’s written a memoir that’s also how-to guide.

Also: ‘Satch, Dizzy & Rapid Robert,’ ‘High Heat’ and The Empire Strikes Out’

As the Ferguson parents struggle with various -iholisms of their own -- alcohol, work, career -- they must suddenly cope with those of their high school senior daughter.

Tales by Raymond Chandler, Leigh Brackett, Chester Himes and others are resurrected in ‘Los Angeles Noir 2.’ ‘Orange County Noir’ explores lost dreams and shattered lives.

The Line A Novel Olga Grushin A Marian Wood Book/Putnam: 324 pp., $25.95 Queues were a conspicuous feature of the old Soviet economy and its distributive malfunctions.

Frances Mayes’ ‘Every Day in Tuscany,’ Justine van der Leun’s ‘Marcus of Umbria: What an Italian Dog Taught an American Girl About Love’ and Paula Butturini’s ‘Keeping the Feast: One Couple’s Story of Love, Food and Healing in Italy’ Plus: A.L. Kennedy’s ‘What Becomes’ and ‘One More Story’ by Ingo Schulze.

Fiction Weeks on list1.The Help by Kathryn Stockett (Putnam: $24.95) The lives of a maid, a cook and a college graduate become intertwined as they change a Mississippi town.43 2.

Fiction 1. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson ($14.95) 2.