No Photos in Saved Book

When I create a saved book in Lightroom 5 Book Module, the number of photos is listed to the right of the saved name in the Collections list, but there are no photos displayed in the Book itself. If I leave the Book Module and return, there is no change, all I see is the standard startup book template with a few blank pages. Any suggestions?

It sounds like I have a nearly identical problem but no number of reboots and cold boots have solved the problem. I am running LR5 in Win7. I spent the last 2 days building and refining a book with 115 images - 3 & 4 images per page. Everything was going well. Late yesterday I made a duplicate of the book. Then I started up my machine this morning and the book came up and showed the default startup and all formatting and text was gone. My filmstrip is showing all of the images and I can do an auto layout again and LRoom will format a the saved book with my auto layout preset but obviously none of the special formatting or text appears.
I tried setting up a new book from scratch with a different set of files, saved a duplicate of the book and everything looked normal to begin with but sooner or later it looses it's formatting completely and reverts to the default layout with no images or formatting. I have been trying all day to pinpoint exactly what causes this and duplicating the saved book seems to be the culprit but it is very inconsistent. Sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't but eventually it will cause all formatting and images to disappear from the saved book leaving me back at square one.
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