How to recover an iphoto book from backup

Hello,
My wife managed to accidentally delete a 75 page iphoto book she's been working on for months. I have a backup of our iphoto library at an offsite location (read: not a time machine) and am in the process of transferring a copy of it to my local machine. However, since the entire iphoto library is 80+ gb, I would prefer to only recover this book if at all possible. I've done some digging through the iphoto library and have found the book in the /iPhoto Library/Metadata Backup/Albums/Album.18008.ipmeta. I have recovered this file from my backup and placed it back into this folder on my local computer, but unfortunately this hasn't restored the book in iphoto itself. I'm assuming there are other pointers hidden throughout the database that also will need to be restored to make this book show up again in iphoto. Has anyone dealt with this problem before and managed to recover a deleted book without restoring the entire iphoto library?
Thank you,
Dennis

You must recover the entire iPhoto library. Books are not a seperate item but are database entries
And it is critical that you do not muck around inside the iPhoto library. There are no user serviceable parts in it and if you make and changes you may corrupt it and cause data loss
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