Books
Martha Egan is the author of numerous books. Her definitive book on milagros, Milagros: Votive Offerings from the Americas is available here on the website - order below.
Milagros are small objects offered to saints or popular images of deities, to petition, or in return for favors granted or prayers answered. They are found throughout Latin America, offered by the hundreds of thousands of devoted petitioners whose purchase or fabrication of these votive offerings continues an ancient folk practice.
The book on Milagros is richly illustrated with photographs of milagros in public and private collections in the US and Latin America. Detailed drawings of ancient and contemporary ex-votos and milagros by artist Kathy Chilton enliven the text. This is a bilingual presentation of seventy-five milagros from around the world in a beautifully designed book that has been in print for over 20 years.
For bookstores and other retail outlets, you can find Martha Egan's other publications on the Papalote Press Website.
Milagros are small objects offered to saints or popular images of deities, to petition, or in return for favors granted or prayers answered. They are found throughout Latin America, offered by the hundreds of thousands of devoted petitioners whose purchase or fabrication of these votive offerings continues an ancient folk practice.
The book on Milagros is richly illustrated with photographs of milagros in public and private collections in the US and Latin America. Detailed drawings of ancient and contemporary ex-votos and milagros by artist Kathy Chilton enliven the text. This is a bilingual presentation of seventy-five milagros from around the world in a beautifully designed book that has been in print for over 20 years.
For bookstores and other retail outlets, you can find Martha Egan's other publications on the Papalote Press Website.
Fiction
Clearing Customs F1202CC1
In 1988, Beverly Parmentier, hardworking owner of a small imports store in Albuquerque, finds herself under surveillance. She isn’t paranoid; she is being followed. Her phones are tapped, her mail is opened, her house is searched whenever she leaves for a few days...
Coyota F1201C1
Nena Herrera-Casey is the coyota, the youngest in her large extended Mexican-American family. Her life in Albuquerque seems placid enough. She teaches Spanish part time at the University and sells handicrafts imported from south of the border at the flea market...
La Ranfla & Other New Mexico Stories F1200LRONMS1
Award winning author Martha Egan presents a collection of seven short stories in which she explores the ways of an ancient place where nothing ever seems to change. In New Mexico’s landscape of high desert plains, adobe villages, and farmsteads nestled...
An Apricot Year AAYC1188
Luli Russell never imagines the hurricanes, both figurative and literal, that will roar through her life when she turns fifty. A traditional Green Bay housewife, she has buried her artistic talent under the demands of her husband and family. For her birthday...
Non-Fiction
Milagros: Votive Offerings from the Americas B411MVOA1
This is the definitive book on Milagros, richly illustrated with photographs of milagros in public and private collections in the US and Latin America. Detailed drawings of ancient and contemporary ex-votos and milagros by artist Kathy Chilton enliven the text. This is a bilingual presentation of seventy-five milagros from around the world in a beautifully designed book that has been in print for over 20 years.
132 pages - Bilingual: English/ Spanish
132 pages - Bilingual: English/ Spanish
Relicarios: The Forgotten Jewels of Latin America NF1199RTFJLA1
Relicarios are finely crafted, bi-faced lockets of gold or silver artifacts of the Spanish Colonial era in Latin America. These sometimes, exquisite jewels are bi-faced pendants that contain devotional imagery protected by glass. The images may be miniature paintings on vellum, nacre, alabaster, copper, or ivory; prints; tiny sculptures of boxwood, ivory, alabaster, or tagua; or molded imagery in pastas of corn pith, a potato and plaster mixture, or clay. Although tons of relics were imported from Europe...