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Using Robert Frost's poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" as a gateway, E. J. Myers enters the forest realm simultaneously in its tangible and intangible dimensions. Why do we find woods alarming? The "otherness" of forests is often what frightens us. As Myers notes, however, it is precisely this otherness that makes the woods so rich, strange, and powerful. He draws from sources as disparate as C. G. Jung and Immanuel Kant, as well as poets and anonymous tellers of fairy tales, to portray the forest landscape as a source of strength and wisdom. The woods are truly "lovely, dark and deep," but therein lies the source of their true worth.

After a back-road car accident in the Colorado Rockies seriously injures their parents, athletic fourteen-year-old Danielle and her brainy younger brother, Jake, set out together to find help. Walking twenty miles through deep snow is the most obvious option but seems too risky. The teens decide instead to make a more audacious move: climbing a mountain that Jake believes is nearby and that has a manned weather station at its summit. As they head upward, Danielle and Jake soon realize that they've taken an all-or-nothing gamble: they must climb . . . or die.

Seething with rage toward what he regards as the sinful modern world, a thirty-eight-year-old survivalist named Cliff retreats to an uninhabited valley deep in the Rocky Moun-tains. He has rebuilt a 1930's-era miner's shack at timberline and has stocked it with food, cold-winter gear, equipment, and weapons. In this aerie Cliff awaits the collapse of civilization, the Tribulation, and the End of Days. He is ready for any and all of the calamities destined to befall humankind. Soon, however, Cliff starts to wonder if the Tribulation he experiences is taking place out in the world or inside his own mind.

Taking place on a single day, Marilyn Levy's novel CHICAGO: AUGUST 28, 1968, relates what a dozen ordinary Americans experience during the upheaval of the late Sixties. The setting: Chicago, USA. The context: a polarized city hosting the Democratic National Convention. Ten thousand antiwar protestors have gathered in Chicago's Grant Park. Irate at seeing his authority challenged, Mayor Richard Daley has mobilized the Chicago Police Force against the protestors. Tensions escalate. Violence erupts. CHICAGO: AUGUST 28, 1968 portrays the chaotic events of that day through the eyes of a student demonstrator, a suburban professor, an African American activist, a young cop, an emergency room doctor, and others. Their individual and collective perceptions create a kaleidoscopic image of how people of many differentmany backgrounds and ideologies survived a traumatic moment in American history.

After a back-road car accident in the Colorado Rockies seriously injures their parents, athletic fourteen-year-old Danielle and her brainy younger brother, Jake, set out together to find help. Walking twenty miles through deep snow is the most obvious option but seems too risky. The teens decide instead to make a more audacious move: climbing a mountain that Jake believes is nearby and that has a manned weather station at its summit. As they head upward, Danielle and Jake soon realize that they've taken an all-or-nothing gamble: they must climb . . . or die.

In its nuanced portrait of a middle-aged suburbanite and his family, APPEARANCES challenges easy assumptions about the nature of kinship and selfhood, of crime and punishment, of appearance and reality. Steven Howe-Boomer, lawyer, family man-has settled into midlife contentment. Then, unexpectedly, Steven finds himself doubly shaken by something that a data search uncovers. Steven's father, Alonzo "Lon" Howe-long assumed to have died in 1958-is, in fact, still alive. And he is incarcerated in the Colorado State Penitentiary, two hours' drive south of where Steven lives in Denver. What follows is a series of revelations that shake Steven's perceptions of himself, his family, and his marriage. Unafraid of risking controversy in the pursuit of insight into the human condition, APPEARANCES is Joanne Greenberg's finest, most challenging, and most compassionate novel.