September brings a tale of Puerto Rico

Happy September, everybody! The new month brings a new author to the area for a signing in Sarah McCoy, who will be signing copies of her debut “The Time It Snowed in Puerto Rico” at 4 p.m. Saturday at the Baileys Crossroads Borders. Set in Puerto Rico in the early 1960s amid political turmoil, the coming-of-age story follows an 11-year-old girl who accidentally sees her parents in an intimate way she never saw before, and lashes out via attitude and bleach dye job before discovering their encompassing love for each other and her.

The Politics and Prose downtown also has a couple events of note this week. Christopher Caldwell will speak at 7 p.m. Tuesday about the issues facing Muslim immigrants in European countries that he discusses in his book “Reflections on the Revolution in Europe,” and at 7 p.m. Thursday, Jonathan Tropper drops by to promote his latest, “This Is Where I Leave You,” about a parenting expert mom and her four kids bringing their dysfunctional family together at the funeral of the fam’s patriarch.

With the big news of Disney buying Marvel Entertainment for a cool $4 billion, turning the comics world on its head, people are now worried about Scrooge McDuck and the Thing team-ups. Who knows what will happen, but Mickey Mouse needs to turn “Luke Cage Noir” into a flick, stat! Northern Virginia artist Shawn Martinbrough’s astounding illustrations are only part of what is making this miniseries great, and the second issue features Tombstone, a nasty Spider-Man villain and albino gangster who’s reimagined here as, well,  an albino gangster who’s back to rough up Harlem ex-con Luke Cage.

Also out this week: Reston native Steve Niles’ collection of his Batman series “Gotham After Midnight”; the debut of the new monthly “Magog,” spinning out of “JSA”; “Absolute V For Vendetta,” for all you Alan Moore completists out there; and Jeff Lemire’s “Sweet Tooth,” possibly Vertigo’s newest hit series starring a boy with deer antlers and only costing a buck for its first issue.

What books have leaked from your summer reading list into your fall one? Let me know in the comments.