New releases for week of Dec. 8

  “Divine Misdemeanors” by Laurell K. Hamilton: Meredith Gentry is back in the eighth novel in the series featuring the princess private eye.
  The saga continues following “Swallowing Darkness” as Merry, pregnant with twins, runs to Los Angeles with her bodyguards after refusing the faerie throne in an effort to protect her unborn children.
  Also expected out this week is a new novel from the author of “The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency” series.
  In Alexander McCall Smith’s “La’s Orchestra Saves the World,” Lavender, also known as La, flees WWII London to escape German bombs and memories of her husband’s infidelity.
  La finds solace in a small town, but as the war drags on she seeks to boost the towns morale by starting an orchestra, recruiting amateur musicians including a Polish refugee who stirs feelings in her broken heart.
  Also hitting shelves: “Alone” by Loren D. Estleman; “Burning Shadows” by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro; “The Disciple” by Stephen Coonts; “Faces of the Gone” by Brad Parks; “Fallen” by Lauren Kate; “Footnotes in Gaza” by Joe Sacco; “The Good Son” by Russel D. McLean; “The Hundred-Year Christmas” by David Morrell; “Luck of the Draw” by Anthony J. Cardieri; “Muse and Reverie” by Charles de Lint; “Puttering About in a Small Land” by Philip K. Dick; “Star Wars Darth Bane No. 3: Dynasty of Evil” by Drew Karpyshyn; and “Wormwood, Nevada” by David Oppegaard.