The Afternoon Book Discussion at the Jamestown library will continue on Nov. 14, the second Tuesday of the month, from 1 to 2 p.m. with the book "A Covenant with Death" by Stephen Becker.

From the jacket cover: "In the southwest in 1923, a man is charged with the murder of his very beautiful wife. The story is told by a judge, then only 29, whose personal flaws and conflicts with women, with success, with life itself mirror, and are mirrored in, the decision he alone must hand down, so that all the crises of his own life, and of his own society, are bound in deadly intimacy to the life and death of others." This book is a favorite of one of the discussion group members.

Stephen D. Becker was a native New Yorker, a translator and novelist who died in 1999.

There are very few copies of this book in the system, so book discussion members are asked to read and return their copies as soon as possible.

Titles and dates of some future discussions are: "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith, Dec.12; and "Mirage" by Soheir Khashoggi, Jan. 9

These books may be obtained through the Jamestown library by placing holds on one of the many copies in the state available through the Cooperating Libraries Automated Network or CLAN.

The meetings are free and open to the public. For more information, call the library at 423-7280.