A Forest Apart by Troy Denning

In this novella Malla and Lumpy's visit to Coruscant is marked with adventure when Lumpy's taken hostage by a thief in Princess Leia's chambers. The plot allows Chewbacca to work out some of his feelings about being an absentee parent (all those times we see Chewie gallivanting around the galaxy with Han and Leia--just think of the wife and child he's left back home on Kashyyk!). This story is a bit of light reading--entertaining, but nothing that will make the other Star Wars novels unclear.