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Open Image ModalTake a tour of the final design drawings for Calgary's new central public library. (credit:CMLC)
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Open Image ModalA view of the Plus 15 that will span 8 Avenue. (credit:CMLC)
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Open Image ModalA view of the exterior at night. (credit:CMLC)
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Open Image ModalThe Grand Atrium (credit:CMLC)
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Open Image ModalAnother view of the Grand Atrium. (credit:CMLC)
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Open Image ModalA youth and teen area. (credit:CMLC)
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Open Image ModalA theatre for classes and lectures. (credit:CMLC)
#25: The Poisonwood Bible(08 of32)
Open Image ModalAuthor: Barbara KingsolverPages: 576Percentage of list: 3.39 per cent The one-liner: "A story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959."
#24: Ender's Game(09 of32)
Open Image ModalAuthor: Orson Scott Card Pages: 352Percentage of list: 3.53 per cent The one-liner: "In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers."
#23: The Kite Runner(10 of32)
Open Image ModalAuthor Khaled HosseiniPages: 400Percentage of list: 3.67 per cent The one-liner: "Amir and Hassan are childhood friends in the alleys and orchards of Kabul in the sunny days before the invasion of the Soviet army and Afghanistan’s decent into fanaticism."
#22: The Giver(11 of32)
Open Image ModalAuthor: Lois Lowry Pages: 192Percentage of list: 3.88 per cent The one-liner: "When Jonas turns 12 he is singled out to receive special training from The Giver. The Giver alone holds the memories of the true pain and pleasure of life. Now, it is time for Jonas to receive the truth."
#21: Anne of Green Gables(12 of32)
Open Image ModalAuthor: L.M. MontgomeryPages: 497Percentage of list: 3.95 per cent The one-liner: "When Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert of Green Gables send for a boy orphan to help them out at the farm, they are in no way prepared for the error that will change their lives. The mistake takes the shape of Anne Shirley, a redheaded 11-year-old girl who can talk anyone under the table."
#20: The Alchemist(13 of32)
Open Image ModalAuthor: Paulo CoelhoPages: 197Percentage of list: 4.01 per cent The one-liner: "The magical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure as extravagant as any ever found."
#19: The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe(14 of32)
Open Image ModalAuthor: C. S. Lewis Pages: 208Percentage of list: 4.05 per cent The one-liner: "Four adventurous siblings step through a wardrobe door and into the land of Narnia, a land frozen in eternal winter and enslaved by the power of the White Witch."
#18: The Handmaid's Tale(15 of32)
Open Image ModalAuthor: Margaret Atwood Pages: 311Percentage of list: 4.27 per cent The one-liner: "In the world of the near future, who will control women's bodies?"
#17: A Wrinkle In Time(16 of32)
Open Image ModalAuthor: Madeleine L'EnglePages: 256Percentage of list: 4.38 per cent The one-liner: "Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset by the arrival of a most disturbing stranger."
#16: Gone With The Wind(17 of32)
Open Image ModalAuthor: Margaret MitchellPages: 960Percentage of list: 4.95 per cent The one-liner: "Gone With the Wind explores the depth of human passions with an intensity as bold as its setting in the red hills of Georgia."
#15: The Stand(18 of32)
Open Image ModalAuthor: Stephen KingPages: 1,200Percentage of list: 5.11 per cent The one-liner: "A patient escapes from a biological testing facility, unknowingly carrying a deadly weapon: a mutated strain of super-flu that will wipe out 99 per cent of the world’s population within a few weeks."
#14: Jane Eyre(19 of32)
Open Image ModalAuthor: Charlotte BrontePages: 302Percentage of list: 5.23 per cent The one-liner: "Charlotte Brontë's most beloved novel describes the passionate love between the courageous orphan Jane Eyre and the brilliant, brooding, and domineering Rochester."
#13: Little Women(20 of32)
Open Image ModalAuthor: Louisa May AlcottPages: 560Percentage of list: 5.26 per cent The one-liner: "Lovely Meg, talented Jo, frail Beth, spoiled Amy: these are hard lessons of poverty and of growing up in New England during the Civil War."
#12: 1984(21 of32)
Open Image ModalAuthor: George Orwell Pages: 328Percentage of list: 5.37 per cent The one-liner: "Written in 1948, 1984 was George Orwell’s chilling prophecy about the future."
#11: The Great Gatsby(22 of32)
Open Image ModalAuthor: F. Scott FitzgeraldPages: 180Percentage of list: 5.61 per cent The one-liner: "The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when The New York Times noted 'gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession,' it is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s"
#10: The Chronicles of Narnia(23 of32)
Open Image ModalAuthor: C.S. LewisPages: 768Percentage of list: 5.63 per cent The one-liner: "Journeys to the end of the world, fantastic creatures, and epic battles between good and evil -- what more could any reader ask for in one book?"
#9: The Catcher in the Rye(24 of32)
Open Image ModalAuthor: J.D. SalingerPages: 224Percentage of list: 5.70 per cent The one-liner: "Perhaps the safest thing we can say about [the main character] Holden is that he was born in the world not just strongly attracted to beauty but, almost, hopelessly impaled on it."
#8: The Hunger Games Series(25 of32)
Open Image ModalAuthor: The Hunger Games TrilogyPercentage of list: 5.82 per cent The one-liner: "The Capitol keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV."
#7: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy(26 of32)
Open Image ModalAuthor: Douglas AdamsPages: 224Percentage of list: 5.97 per cent The one-liner: "Seconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy who, for the last fifteen years, has been posing as an out-of-work actor."
#6: The Bible(27 of32)
Open Image ModalPages: 1,344Percentage of list: 7.21 per cent
#5: Pride And Prejudice(28 of32)
Open Image ModalAuthor: Jane Austen Pages: 352Percentage of list: 7.28 per cent The one-liner: "For decades, people have enjoyed losing themselves in the stories of classic literary characters, including enjoying the love-hate relationship between Elizabeth Bennett and Mr. Darcy."
#4: The Hobbit(29 of32)
Open Image ModalAuthor: J.R.R. TolkienPages: 300Percentage of list: 7.48 per cent The one-liner: "Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely traveling any farther than his pantry or cellar. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard Gandalf and a company of dwarves arrive on his doorstep one day to whisk him away on an adventure."
#3: The Lord Of The Rings Series(30 of32)
Open Image ModalAuthor: J.R.R. TolkienPercentage of list: 13.86 per cent The one-liner: "One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them..."
#2: To Kill A Mockingbird(31 of32)
Open Image ModalAuthor: Harper LeePages: 384Percentage of list: 14.48 per cent The one-liner: "Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, To Kill A Mockingbird takes readers to the roots of human behaviour — to innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, humour and pathos."
#1: Harry Potter Series(32 of32)
Open Image ModalAuthor: J.K. RowlingPercentage of list: 21.08 per cent The one-liner: "Harry Potter thinks he is an ordinary boy. Harry starts receiving mysterious letters and his life is changed for ever. He is whisked away by a beetle-eyed giant of a man and enrolled in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The reason: Harry Potter is a wizard!"