What’s new: Books by Anna Quindlen, Thomas Piketty and more

MILLER’S VALLEY, by Anna Quindlen. The former New York Times and Newsweek columnist is back with a new novel. In “Miller’s Valley,” we meet narrator Mimi Miller as a child in small-town Pennsylvania in the 1960s, as the Miller farm is threatened by government plans to build a reservoir. Quindlen follows Mimi into adulthood as she comes to understand the complex meanings of family. (Random House, $28)

WHY SAVE THE BANKERS?: And Other Essays on Our Economic and Political Crisis, by Thomas Piketty. If you haven’t yet cracked your copy of “Capital in the Twenty-First Century” — the 696-page surprise best-seller by this French economist — here’s an accessible collection of his newspaper columns of the past eight years, tackling subjects from the Greek financial crisis to the ISIS Paris attacks. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $26)

THE BOOKS THAT CHANGED MY LIFE: Reflections by 100 Authors, Actors, Musicians and Other Remarkable People, edited by Bethanne Patrick. For true bibliophiles, this sort of collection is irresistible. Keith Carradine relates to Doctorow’s “The Book of Daniel”? Cool. Rosanne Cash loves the “Little House” books? Naturally. Nelson DeMille taps . . . “Atlas Shrugged” by Ayn Rand. Who knew? (Regan Arts, $24.95)