The Sid Jacobson JCC has announced the upcoming Fall Author Breakfast and Book Signing Series. Each year the JCC brings together contemporary writers to discuss their works over brunch to a sell-out audience of enthusiastic readers and book clubs. Find out what inspires your favorite writers during a question and answer session and have your book signed at the conclusion of the event.

On Thursday, Oct. 10 at 10:15 a.m., Jonathan Safran Foer kicks off his nationwide tour to discuss his new best-selling novel Everything Is Illuminated. Already translated into 11 languages, Everything Is Illuminated had captured the attention of the publishing world and has been hailed by the New York Times, New York Magazine, New Yorker and Jewish Week. Don't miss this rising star who has been compared to Nathan Englander and was mentored by Joyce Carol Oates.

The story is about a young Jewish writer's search for his family's European roots. There are two plots in this novel. The first is the story of Jonathan Safran Foer, who travels to the Ukraine hoping to find Augustine, the women who helped save his grandmother from the Nazis. The second story follows the history of one family in Trachimbrod, the shtetl for which Jonathan is searching. What begins as a comic madcap journey evolves into a familiar and heart-wrenching story, which links the past to the future.

On Thursday, Nov. 7 at 10:15 a.m., the JCC is thrilled to welcome Susan Isaacs, renowned author of Compromising Positions, Shining Through and six other best-selling novels. She will discuss her latest novel, Long Time No See. Isaacs, a native Long Islander, will discuss her life, work and her much beloved heroine Judith Singer, who is back at last in Long Time No See.

Singer, who helped find a murderer in Isaac's 1978 bestseller, Compromising Positions, is back to help solve the latest mystery surrounding her next-door neighbor Courtney Logan, former investment analyst, devoted mother and housewife. On Halloween night Logan leaves her home to go to the grocery store, five months later, her badly decomposed body is found floating in a backyard pool. Singer suspects the answer to the crime lies in the victim's character. Is she right?

For pricing and additional information on the Fall Author Breakfast and Book Signing, contact Stefanie Shulman at (516) 484-1545, ext. 144. The Sid Jacobson JCC is located at 300 Forest Drive, East Hills. Copies of both books are available for purchase in the JCC lobby.