Meet Helen Lingscheit Heavirland, as she reads from her new book, Surviving the Sand.

Soon after Columbia Basin Project irrigation opened new possibilities, logger Wayne Lingscheit moved his family to the Pasco, Washington desert. In Surviving the Sand, his daughter Helen shares their hardscrabble yet heartwarming story. Like many who were part of the project, it is full of arduous work and incredibly tough times, but also love and laughter as they chase her father’s seemingly impossible dream.

“Helen Heavirland has given us a gift of grit and wit wrapped in Inspiration in Surviving the Sand. Her memoir reads like a novel with its passion and pace. It’s a treasure of history and a family’s faith-filled hope that you’ll long remember. I know I will.”—Jane Kirkpatrick, New York Times best-selling author of Homestead