LONGWOOD, FL-Many people aspire to greatness and desire to leave a lasting legacy. In The Plowboy: Words of Faith and Encouragement (paperback, 978-1-60477-004-9; hardcover, 978-1-60477-005-6), by Patrick Martin Williams, Jr., readers will be introduced to Appalachian folk literature, a pleasing blend of Scripture, charming anecdotes, poetry, and old-fashioned country humor. After enduring personal tragedy with great love, patience, faith, hope, humor, and a concern for all humanity, Williams lived his faith every day, generously sacrificing to help others. His message of faith and encouragement continues to be relevant, timeless, and universal for troubled people everywhere.
Now deceased, the author wrote this manuscript during the '60s and entrusted it to his teenage granddaughter, Vana J. Plaisance, with the promise that she would do her best to have it published in her lifetime. Forty years later, The Plowboy offers new insight through the refreshing perspective of an Appalachian plowboy who wanted to serve God.
"Hopefully readers will gain a deeper understanding of God's relationship with mankind and mankind's relationship with God [through the book]," says Plaisance. "People will hopefully take away the desire for the Bible to have supremacy in their works, deeds, and lives. This is important since a Christ-centered program in their lives would help to resolve their inner conflicts as well as their outer conflicts, and to provide peace in their lives, in the lives of others, in society, and in the world."
Xulon Press, a part of Salem Communications Corporation, is the world's largest Christian publisher, with more than 3,900 titles published to date. Retailers may order The Plowboy through Ingram Book Company and/or Spring Arbor Book Distributors. Salem Communications is the country's leading Christian communications company with interests in radio, Internet, and magazine publishing.
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2007