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Kati Gardner

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Kati is a recovering actor who has spent the last few years keeping tiny humans alive. In high school she was determined to play a doctor on General Hospital and possibly add in a love story with Jonathan Jackson. She would spend hours toiling away on FanFiction for my AOL community and dreaming of the day she would accept a Daytime Emmy Award. In college she majored in Theater arts and spent lots of time hanging out in the box office.

Before any of that happened though, Kati had cancer. She was eight. She responded to chemotherapy and had an amputation of her entire left leg. She still advocates for childhood cancer research and accessibility for all individual with disabilities.

Kati is married, has two great girls, and a posse of furry fr ...more

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Average rating: 3.96 · 1,556 ratings · 435 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	Brave Enough (Brave Enough, #1) 3.98 avg rating — 1,040 ratings — published 2018 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Body Talk: 37 Voices Explore Our Radical Anatomy by Kelly Jensen (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Eric Smith (Goodreads Author), Julie Murphy (Goodreads Author) 4.02 avg rating — 588 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Finding Balance (Brave Enough, #2) 3.89 avg rating — 377 ratings — published 2020 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science

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The Epic Classroom: How to Boost Engagement, Make Learning Memorable, and Transform Lives

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Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel (Before You Waste Three Years Writing 327 Pages That Go Nowhere)

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“She tried not to compare herself to this girl, someone she hated based totally on the fact that she was with Jase. But how could Mari ever compete with perfection?”
― Kati Gardner, Finding Balance

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“Leukemia, cardiomyopathy—those things are not Jason Ellison. They are small components that shape you, not you.”
― Kati Gardner, Finding Balance

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“Seriously, I will bang on this table and start singing ‘Baby Shark’ until you tell me.”
― Kati Gardner, Finding Balance

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