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The Five Shelves: Tanaka, Okafor, Moreau, Vásquez, and Petrova

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Five authors — Tanaka, Okafor, Moreau, Vásquez, and Petrova — each have exactly one cover colour, genre, binding, and bookmark, and no two share any of them. Match each author to their cover colour, genre, binding, and bookmark from these clues: 1. Petrova is not the memoirist. 2. Moreau is not the author whose book holds a postcard. 3. The memoirist is the author with the hardback. 4. The author with the red cover is the poet. 5. The author with the red cover is the author whose book holds a postcard. 6. Vásquez is not the author with the hardback. 7. The cookbook writer is the author with the paperback. 8. The author with the leather-bound edition is the author whose book holds a ribbon bookmark. 9. Moreau is not the author with the leather-bound edition. 10. Moreau is not the author with the black cover. 11. Okafor is not the author whose book holds a postcard. 12. The historian is the author whose book holds a ribbon bookmark. 13. The poet is the author with the boxed set. 14. The cookbook writer is the author whose book holds a ticket stub. 15. The author with the black cover is the author with the paperback. 16. Petrova is not the author with the red cover. 17. Moreau is not the author with the hardback. 18. The author with the blue cover is the memoirist. 19. Vásquez is not the poet. 20. The memoirist is the author whose book holds a receipt. 21. The author with the green cover is the historian. 22. Petrova is not the historian.

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In the final matching, which genre goes with “Petrova”? Answer with just the genre.

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