Books In Sync Recognizes MultiBook Author

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Books In Sync Recognizes Multi-Book Author
Public Speaker Alberta H. Sequeira
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Author of A Healing Heart and Someone Stop
This Merry-Go-Round
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Featuring
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• Enter behind closed doors of a familys private
• life of hardships and struggles with alcohol
• abuse.
• Witness the constant confusion,
• disappointments, broken promises and fear.
• It leaves a trail of heartbreak
• Details
• Infinity Publishing (2009)
• ISBN 9780741454157
• ISBN 0-7414-5415-7
• Genre Memoirs, Self-Help Substance Abuse
  Addictions / Alcoholism

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Readers Choice Literary Reviews

• Many of us have had a spouse or family
• member arrive home after a few too many
• drinks. Some of us have needed to make up
• excuses for a loved ones occasional
• overdrinking. Imagine if this was a daily
• occurrence. Waiting, worrying, and watching
• the clock, wondering when, and in what state,
• a spouse would finally come home, and then
• trying to hide it all from neighbors, family and
• the children.

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• For seventeen years, this was author
• Alberta H. Sequeira's existence every day
• as she dealt with her husband's
• alcoholism. She loved mild-mannered
• Richard Lopes and witnessed how
• alcohol changed him from a loving family
• man with a successful business to a
• careless, angry, abusive drunk.

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• Written like dramatic fiction, Someone
• Stop This Merry-Go-Round An Alcoholic
• Family in Crisis is a fast paced, tension-
• filled account of a woman's tireless effort
• to keep her family together, her two
• children safe and to protect her own
• mental and physical well being.
• Sequeira gives an honest telling of life
• married to an alcoholica life filled with
• sadness, fear, pain and despair.

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• Sequeira didn't believe in divorce and
• was too proud to seek help from her
• parents, deciding to go it alone. Several
• times it seemed her husband was ready
• to quit his devastating lifestyle and
• commit fully to being a good partner and
• devoted father, only to have him fall back
• to bingeing and his alcoholic ways.

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• This rollercoaster life took its toll on
  Sequeira,
• plaguing her with frequent panic attacks and
• eventually bringing her to the brink of a total
• breakdown. Through arguments, unpaid bills,
• violent rage, emotional abuse and neglect,
• Sequeira kept hope that her husband would
• eventually realize he had a problem, and seek
• treatment. He never did...always believing he
• was just having a few drinks with his buddies
• after a hard days work.

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• Sequeira takes her share of the blame for all
• the times she could have kicked him out,
• demanded he got help, or pressed charges for
• the abuse. I found myself cheering for her,
• hoping that in the end Mr. Lopes would choose
• to save his marriage and his family. Despite
• being divorced from Mr. Lopes, Sequeira
• suffered greatly when he succumbed in 1985 to
• the damage done to his body from a lifetime of
• drinking.

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• Alberta H. Sequeira is a talented writer.
• She shows great courage not only in
• surviving, but in her willingness to return
• to these experiences when she wrote this
• memoir. I believe this book could be of
• great help to alcoholics, their families
• and even counselors.
• I highly recommend Someone Stop This
• Merry-Go-Round An Alcoholic Family in
• Crisis.

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• I look forward to the follow-up
• coming soon. The sequel, Please,
• God, Not Two-This Killer Called
• Alcoholism details how Sequeira's
• daughter, Lori Cahill, followed the
• same path as her father.
• Infinity Publishing (June 2009)
• ISBN-13 978-0741454157

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• Please Listen As I Read
• An Excerpt From
• Someone Stop This Merry-Go-
• Round - An Alcoholic Family in Crisis
• by Alberta H. Sequeira

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• Print Price 18.95
• Purchase Link
• http//www.buybooksontheweb.com/prod
• uct.aspx?ISBN0-7414-5415-7
• Buy an autographed book using PayPal
• http//www.albertasequeira.com

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• To schedule Alberta H. Sequeira
• for a speaking engagements
• please email
• memoirs_at_albertasequeira.com