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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Barnes, Jennifer (Jennifer Lynn), author.
Title: The final gambit / Jennifer Lynn Barnes.
Description: New York ; Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 2022. | Series: An inheritance games novel | Audience: Ages 12+. | Summary: “Eighteen-year-old Avery Grambs is weeks away from inheriting the multibillion-dollar Hawthorne fortune, but first she’ll have to survive a dangerous game against an old enemy looking for vengeance.”—Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2022017764 | ISBN 9780316370950 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780316371124 (ebook) | ISBN 9780316466301 (int’l) | ISBN 9780316485050 (Walmart exclusive edition) | ISBN 9780316451338 (B&N exclusive edition)
Subjects: CYAC: Inheritance and succession—Fiction. | Wealth—Fiction. | Puzzles—Fiction. | Secrets—Fiction. | Families—Fiction. | LCGFT: Novels.
Classification: LCC PZ7.B26225 Fin 2022 | DDC [Fic]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022017764
ISBNs: 978-0-316-37095-0 (hardcover), 978-0-316-37112-4 (ebook), 978-0-316-46630-1 (int’l), 978-0-316-48505-0 (Walmart exclusive edition), 978-0-316-45133-8 (B&N exclusive edition)
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