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"In 1963, thirteen-year-old Arthur is sentenced to community service helping the neighborhood Junk Man after he throws a brick at the old man's head in a moment of rage, but the junk he collects might be more important than he suspects. Inspired by the work of American folk artist James Hampton"--
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Seventeen-year-old Brynn Riley is on a hundred committees, has earned teacher's pet in practically every class she's ever taken, and is on track to make valedictorian. But one night, Brynn makes a mistake. A big one. Why wouldn't the cops show up on the one night she's ever cut loose in her life? Why wouldn't she be assigned community service for one tiny mistake? And why, of all things, wouldn't a boy from school happen to work at the pitbull rescue...
6) One good dog
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One good dog volume 1
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Adam March is a self-made "Master of the Universe." He has it all: the beautiful wife, the high-powered job, the glittering circle of friends. But there is a price to be paid for all these trappings, and the pressure is mounting-until the day Adam makes a fatal mistake. His assistant leaves him a message with three words: your sister called. What no one knows is that Adam's sister has been missing for decades. That she represents the excruciatingly...
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When Emily sees her developmentally disabled classmate Belinda being attacked, she does nothing at all. Belinda, however, manages to save herself. When their high school finds out what happened, Emily and Lucas, a football player who was also there that night, are required to perform community service at a center for disabled people. But can they do anything that will actually help the one person they hurt the most?
8) Body heat
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Maura Mahoney's quiet routine as accountant and acting manager at Cherry Lane retirement community is turned upside down when Jesse Blue, a bad boy on a Harley, roars into her life. He has been sentenced to do community service at Cherry Lane. Maura, protective of the seniors, puts him to work in the garden, outside her office window, where she can keep an eye on him. It's an instant attraction of opposites. Though each believes the other is way out...
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After an incident at school, seventeen year-old Alaine is spending spring break in a "volunteer immersion project", toiling away under the ever-watchful eyes of Tati Estelle and her eagle-eyed mother at a new nonprofit in Haiti. Although it is meant as punishment, Alaine is still able to flirt with Tati's distractingly cute intern, get some actual face time with her mom and experience her family's history in Haiti for the first time.
11) I like me better
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"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...
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When misfit Irene gets suspended, she is assigned two weeks of community service at a retirement home. Following her passion for cheerleading, she enlists the seniors to audition for a talent-search reality show. Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival**. Winner of the Comedy Vanguard award at the **Austin Film Festival**. Winner of Best Feature Film and Best Writing in a Feature at the **Canadian Comedy Awards**. *"There's...
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To everyone she meets, Morgan Kemper comes across as sweet, pretty, and put together. But for over a year she's shoplifted countless pieces of clothing and makeup. When she's caught and sentenced to thirty hours of community service, the image Morgan has carefully constructed starts to crumble. Morgan is determined to complete her punishment without her friends discovering the truth. Then she meets Eli, the nephew of the owner of the charity shop...
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[2021]
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"In the English-language debut novel of one of Mexico's most poignant writers, a man guilty of a minor offense finds himself caught between the tedium of his temperate city and the growing menace of crime there. After an accident-or "the misfortune," as his cancer-ridden father's caretaker calls it-Eduardo is sentenced to a year of community service reading to the elderly and infirm. Stripped of his driver's license and feeling impotent as he nears...
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Crushing volume 2
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[2018]
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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...
18) Step up
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[2006]
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Tyler is a rebel from the wrong side of Baltimore℗£s tracks. The only thing that stands between him and an unfulfilled life are his dreams of one day making it out of there. Nora is a privileged ballet dancer attending an elite school of dance in Baltimore. The only thing standing in the way of her brilliant future is finding a great dance partner for her senior showcase. When trouble with the law lands Tyler with a community service gig at Maryland...
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[2023]
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In this sharp new comedy-drama, an unlikely group of lawbreakers is forced together in a community payback project. When seven strangers are thrown together in a community service scheme, they realize they couldn't be more different. Having broken the law, in their hometown of Bristol, is the one thing they have in common. As new friendships emerge, dark secrets are revealed. And when the group gets drawn into dangerous criminal activity, they must...
20) Finding normal
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[2014]
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The only thing standing between Dr. Lisa Leland and the wedding of her dreams in the Hamptons is a 2,600-mile drive from Los Angeles to her new life. However, a run-in with the law in the country town of Normal, NC, leaves Dr. Leland with a choice: jail or community service. Sentenced to serve three days as the town's doctor, Lisa has her world turned upside down by a man she would never expect. Quickly, Lisa finds that there's a lot more to Normal...
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