My PDFs in iBooks have disappeared!

PLease help, all my PDFs have disappeared from iBooks?!

All my books and pdfs were in my ibooks library 2 weeks ago on my iPad and my iPhone. I went on vacation for 2 weeks. Today I needed to begin working with them again. They are all gone. All I see is an empty book case on both devices.  I paid for all of them. None of them were free. How can I get them back?

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