On Saturday, October 24, 2009, from 6:30pm-8pm, author Alberta Sequeira of Rochester, will be offering a speaking engagement to the public on “The Affect on Alcoholism on the Whole Family” at the Lakeville Public Library at 4 Precinct Street in Lakeville, MA.

She is welcoming every family member including the abuser and especially teenagers. Ms. Sequeira not only wants to share her life story of losing a husband and daughter from this demon but wants to make everyone aware of the warning signs, especially while dating. Her memoir revolves around their life married to Richard Lopes of North Dighton.

Alberta will be autographing her second memoir Someone Stop This Merry-Go-Round; An Alcoholic Family in Crisis. June 19, 2009, it had been self-published by Infinity Publishing. It’s a heartfelt and realistic story of her life in an alcoholic family and their secure life falling into tiny pieces. February 10, 1985, Richie died at the VA Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island at the young age of forty-five.

President, George Bush, had announced September a month of Alcohol and Drug Recovery. Alberta hopes to help with the awareness.

Her first memoir A Healing Heart; A Spiritual Renewal will also be available. It’s an emotional and powerful story about her relationship with her father, Brigadier General, Albert L. Gramm formally of North Dighton, who had been one of the commanding officers of the 26th Yankee Division during WWII, fighting in the battle of Lorraine, Metz, and the famous Battle of the Bulge. After his death, Alberta takes a ten day pilgrimage to Medjugorje in Bosnia after numerous miracles. A Healing Heart received the “Reviewers Choice Award 2008 Semi-Finalist” by Reader View of Austin, Texas.

She is completing her third memoir and sequel; Please, God, Not Two This Killer Called Alcoholism. Hopefully, it will be published by the beginning of 2010. It’s the continuation of their lives while Alberta watched her daughter, Lori Cahill of North Dighton, take the same path as her father. After three rehabilitation stays, she died on November 22, 2006 at the young age of thirty-nine to the same disease.