When a prank goes wrong, Alaine Beauparlant finds herself shipped off to her parents' homeland of Haiti and unpacking family secrets, Haitian history, and possibly a curse. What Alaine learns about Haiti's proud heritage as the world's first Black republic, and its even prouder people, is one thing. But what she learns about her own family legacy is another. Alaine's often-absent journalist mom has kept heartbreaking news from her. And when Alaine...

Sandy is drawn unknowingly into a shoplifting incident, but when his community service involves baseball he meets people who help him finally put the past behind him.

The very definition of a hard-nosed businessman, Adam March has no room in his life for anything but the cold drive to succeed. Not for his social-climbing wife or for his rebellious teenage daughter. then, in an instant, he loses everything, and Adam finds himself alone, unemployed, and reduced to bussing tables in a homeless shelter. Then he meets a dog.

This is not how soccer-star Zack Martin thought his summer would go. When the captain's prank means trouble for the whole squad, Zack's left with no choice but to take one for the team and cover for him. Now he's trading parties and beach days for community service at a seaside conservation center--fair enough. But thanks to his new reputation, the cute intern, Chip, won't even give him a shot. Still, Zack finds himself falling for Chip between dolphin...

Silver bells. When an ambitious businessman gets in a scuffle with a ref at his son's basketball game, he is suspended from his job and sentenced to community service, manning a red kettle and ringing bells for the Salvation Army for the rest of the Christmas season. At first he finds this humiliating, and in his self-pity determines to be the world's worst bell ringer. But as he encounters the people behind the kettle, his life, and especially his...

Party girl Kiernan Rand is a second-semester senior at posh Steinshift High School, and she's all set to attend U Miami in the fall--or so she thinks. When Kiernan receives scary news about her academic standing, then has a run-in with the law at a last-hurrah party, she is forced to mend her ways and do community service. There she meets program supervisor Toby Kaufman, who inspires her to care about her environment--and him. The Girls Who Go to...