HT4059 How to recover Sample books in iBooks?

Though iBooks allows you to recover lost purchased books redownloading from, an option like this doesn't exist for downloaded samples. Case in point, I download samples of books in iBooks as a way to capture books that I intend to buy -- instead of keeping a list. I recently lost 2+ years of saved Sample books (for no apparent reason) and now can't figure out how to recover them.
Is there a way to restore or identify the files from an old back? If so, what would be the specific steps? Thanks.

I posted a possible solution here:
http://apple.stackexchange.com/a/76234/37482
Worked for me - I was able to retrieve the list of all books in iBooks, including sample chapters.

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