IBooks on Mavericks lost all my PDFs! Help!

I used to keep all my manuals and tech notes as PDFs in iBooks through iTunes.  All were neatly organized.  Now they're gone!!! Give me back the old iTunes, please!!!

First of all you have to see your Library folder, in your home (Your name)
If you have not done it yet, open your home folder, than select the menu
View in Finder,
select
Show view options: it will open a prefs window
At the bottom you will check Show Library Folder, to be able to se the Library and follow the path
and get to the folder of ibooks
User-home-library-containers-com.apple.BKAgentService-Data-Documents-iBooks-book s
This is a screenshot of my library when it was empty, only one book
I hope yours will be full. But in the case it  is not, you could always add from a backup all your pdfs and books,
like I did.
In iBooks app you have in the File menu
Add to library.
In case you see all your books and pdfs there but you don't see them in ibooks
just select them all but the Books.plist, and transfer them in another folder on your desktop.
Then select to import with Add to library , all the books and pdfs you would like reinstated in ibooks
I hope it will work for you as well!
P.s. Don't be disappointed though, your books will loose their names-changed to numbers,
the pdfs still have their correct name

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