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  • Leander’s Lies
    Nancy Werking Poling
    Elias Leander Muller did not hunt with Teddy Roosevelt in the Dismal Swamp, as he claimed. He never represented North Carolina in the U.S. Congress. He never lived on a plantation.Lies. All lies. In the post-Civil War South, Elias grows up along the eastern edge of North Carolina’s Appalachian Mountains. A gifted boy, he imagines himself becoming a prominent politician or eloqu...
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  • Before It Was Legal
    Nancy Werking Poling
    “Would you marry a Negro?” the group of young white social workers asked each other over dinner. “If he’s the kind of man I’m attracted to,” Anna Harley answered. She was, in fact, seeing Daniel Winters, a black man, regularly. Their forty-two-year marriage would span key historical periods of the 20th century and eventually take the couple to Mexico City. There, for the first...
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  • Had Eve Come First and Jonah Been a Woman
    Nancy Werking Poling
    In Hebrew scripture men always get the exiting roles: leader, prophet, war hero. Convinced that women, too, need powerful stories that can inform them about who they are in relation to God, Nancy Werking Poling has imagined biblical men as women. A female Samson tells of the elders trying to take away her power; Nochat (Noah), who is trying to raise God-honoring children in vio...
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