How do you recover a book from iPhoto after it crashed

After working on a book every night for 6 months iPhoto suddenly told me today that the theme was no longer available and to change to another and the pictures would transfer and I could continue. I duplicated the book then did as instructed. Both books are completely blank. I lost all 100 pages and 6 months of work. The kicker is the theme is still available and I can open other books I had made, but not this one that I had almost finished. I looked in my backup and can't find the book name. I looked in the time machine and it did a backup last night but when it was restored I got the same error message when trying to open the book, so I assume it's blank. Does anybody know if I can restore the book? Do backups not back up everything? I thought between the time machine and external hard drive I was covered, but either I was wrong, it's difficult to find, or I'm not the brightest bulb....(I'm hoping the answer isn't that I was wrong and that I just don't know where to find it). PLEASE help. Thanks in advance!

After working on a book every night for 6 months iPhoto suddenly told me today that the theme was no longer available and to change to another and the pictures would transfer and I could continue.
Still get the same error message but only for that book.
The program had been crashing on me for awhile now
This looks like a bad library corruption.  Where is your iPhoto library stored? How much free disk space do you have?
Try the following:
Backup your iPhoto library
Restore an older version of your iPhoto library, from before the book vanished completely
Don't open this library in iPhoto and don't change to a different theme. Changing the theme may remove texts and change the layout of pages.
Run the library first aid tools and repair the database and the permissions. If you still cannot open the book, rebuild the iPhoto library.
To repair and rebuild open the iPhoto library with the First Aid tools:
Launch into the First Aid Tools  by holding down the key combination option-command ⌥⌘ and double clicking the iPhoto Library icon to launch iPhoto on this library.
Keep the two buttons firmly held down, until you are seeing the First Aid panel.
Then select "Repair database".
If that does not fix it, try the other First Aid options as well.
If you manage to open your book this way and to finish it, upgrade to iPhoto '11. The version iPhoto 8.1.2 you are running is no longer supported with your current MacOS X version, and you will run into similar glitches again and again because of this incompatibility.  The easiest way to upgrade iPhoto will be to upgrade your MacOS X to 10.10, Yosemite. Then you can buy iPhoto '11, version 9.6 from the App Store. With your current system you can only buy iLife '11 installer disks from Amazon or similar, which will be much more expensive, and a lot of more work.

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