#iphone 5 help

for the love of god can someone please help me with my stupid fucking iphone. I had an update that's been sitting there for literally a month so i decided to finally update it. And for some reason now its telling me to connect it to itunes, but when I do that it tells me its in "Recovery Mode" and then it tells me to restore it. So i go to restore it and it says that it will restore it to back factory mode and "all media and other data will be eased" and thats my only choice. So is there anything i can do to NOT lose everything or restore it?

I go to check my pictures to see where I left off (I screen cap as a way of bookmarking) and not only is the book mark gone, but NONE of my books are there. $100 of books, gone. It shows up in like faded text when it’s plugged into my laptop but other than that, nope. I managed to recover the first three books from my shitty old laptop but I still will need to be going to the Apple Store before I leave. Shshakysbwkag! First world problems.