I cannot play my audiobooks on my Iphone

For some reason, I can no longer play my audiobooks? I have several and went to listen today, and cannot hear them. My songs play fine.  I  have synced my phone to my ITunes and downloaded all purchases. All my purchased songs transferred to my computer, but none of my audiobooks did. Should they have transferred also?  Why can I not hear them? 

That lock is the screen orientation, I believe.  Has nothing to do with Wi-Fi.
Wheny ou say you can't turn on Wi-FI, do you mean it is 'greyed out', or that it will not connect to a Wi-Fi network?
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1398
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1559

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