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

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

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In the final matching, which bookmark goes with “Tanaka”? Answer with just the bookmark.

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