Jennifer Lynn Barnes
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Let the Games Begin (SCPL-YA)
Suspense That Will Leave You Breathless -YA Fiction August 2025
Let the Games Begin (SCPL-YA)
Suspense That Will Leave You Breathless -YA Fiction August 2025
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"Seven tickets. An island of dreams. The chance of a lifetime. Welcome to the Grandest Game, an annual competition run by billionaire Avery Grambs and the four infamous Hawthorne brothers, whose family fortune she inherited. Designed to give anyone a shot at fame and fortune, this year's game requires one of seven golden tickets to enter. With millions on the line, those seven players will do whatever it takes to win. Some of the players are in it...
3) Games untold
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"Novellas and short stories set before, during, and after the Inheritance Games series"-- Provided by publisher.
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Grayson Hawthorne is used to putting family first, but when his billionaire grandfather dies and disinherits the family, Grayson's loyalty is tested. Meanwhile, his risk-taking half-brother, Jameson, is asked by their mysterious father to infiltrate an exclusive underground gambling club in London. As they both become embroiled in twisted games, the brothers must decide who they want to be and what they are willing to sacrifice to win.
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Bloomingdale Library Teen Audiobooks
Let the Games Begin (SCPL-YA)
OBD Patron Picks Winter Reading 2021-2022 - Adult
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Thanks to a DNA test, Avery knows that she's not a Hawthorne by blood, but clues pile up hinting at a deeper connection to the family than she had ever imagined. As the mystery grows and the plot thickens, Grayson and Jameson, two of the enigmatic and magnetic Hawthorne grandsons, continue to pull Avery in different directions. And there are threats lurking around every corner, as adversaries emerge who will stop at nothing to see Avery out of the...
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2021 Summer Top Picks for High Schoolers
2022 Abraham Lincoln Teen Book Awards
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2022 Abraham Lincoln Teen Book Awards
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Avery Grambs has a plan for a better future: Survive high school, win a scholarship, and get out. But her fortunes change in an instant when billionaire Tobias Hawthorne dies and leaves Avery virtually his entire fortune. The catch? Avery has no idea why - or even who Tobias Hawthorne is. To receive her inheritance, Avery must move into sprawling, secret passage-filled Hawthorne House, where every room bears the old man's touch - and his love of puzzles,...
7) The Naturals
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GPLD Best Mystery/Thriller/Horror for Teens
McClure Battle of the Books 2025-2026
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"Seventeen-year-old Cassie, who has a natural ability to read people, joins an elite group of criminal profilers at the FBI in order to help solve cold cases"-- Provided by publisher.
"Seventeen-year-old Cassie is a natural at reading people, piecing together the tiniest details to know who a person is, and what they want. But it's not a skill she takes seriously until the FBI come knocking -- they've begun a classified program that uses exceptional...
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Avery's fortune, life, and loves are on the line in the game that everyone will be talking about. To inherit billions, all Avery Kylie Grambs has to do is survive a few more weeks living in Hawthorne House. The paparazzi are dogging her every step. Financial pressures are building. Danger is a fact of life. And the only thing getting Avery through it all is the Hawthorne brothers. Her life is intertwined with theirs. She knows their secrets, and they...
9) Nobody
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Fifteen-year-old Claire Ryan has always felt invisible, always lived beyond people's notice, which causes trouble when she instantly connects with seventeen-year-old Nix, who really can become invisible and has been sent to assassinate her.
10) Bad blood
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Questioning everything she believes when she makes an astounding discovery, FBI Naturals team member Cassie races to uncover the secrets of a group that has been committing assassinations for generations.
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"A tragic love story unfolds, told in two parts, between a charismatic heir with no memories and the woman nursing him back to health who has every reason to hate him"-- Provided by publisher.
Hannah Rooney knows how to be invisible. At twenty, she keeps her head down and her eyes open, and so far, she's managed to avoid being pulled into the dealings of her notorious criminal family. Hannah lives her life in countdown mode, biding her time in nursing...
12) Killer instinct
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"Friendship. Romance. Serial killers. The Naturals are on the case. Seventeen-year-old Cassie Hobbes has a gift for profiling people. Her talent has landed her a spot in an elite FBI program for teens with innate crime-solving abilities, and into some harrowing situations. After barely escaping a confrontation with an unbalanced killer obsessed with her mother's murder, Cassie hopes she and the rest of the team can stick to solving cold cases from...
13) All in
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Three casinos. Three bodies. Three days. After a string of brutal murders in Las Vegas, Cassie Hobbes and the Naturals are called in to investigate. But even with the team's unique profiling talents, these murders seem baffling: unlike many serial killers, this one uses different methods every time. All of the victims were killed in public, yet the killer does not show up on any security feed. And each victim has a string of numbers tattooed on their...
14) The fixer
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When her grandfather develops dementia, sixteen-year-old Tess, who has been keeping his Montana ranch going, is whisked away to Washington, D.C., by a sister she barely knows and thrown into a world of politics, power, wealth, love triangles, and family secrets.
15) Raised by wolves
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A girl raised by werewolves must face the horrors of her past to uncover the dark secrets that the pack has worked so hard to hide.
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Fixer novel volume 2
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Tess Kendrick, a junior at the elite Hardwicke School in Washington D.C., can fix just about any problem her classmates--or their power-wielding parents--might have, but when terrorism, assassination, and murder strike, she soon finds herself wrapped up in an intricate plot that may end up hitting closer to home than she could have ever imagined.
18) Taken by storm
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Alpha Bryn's humanity becomes a bigger problem as she takes her place in the werewolf Senate and tries to address a new threat to the pack.
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Debutantes volume 1
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Family Drama - Young Adult
Now We're Just Liars...(SCPL-YA)
Rags to Riches
Stop and Smell the Roses (SCPL-YA)
Now We're Just Liars...(SCPL-YA)
Rags to Riches
Stop and Smell the Roses (SCPL-YA)
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Eighteen-year-old Sawyer accepts her estranged grandmother's bribe to live with her for a year, participate in the debutante season and ball, and possibly meet the father she has never known.









