Recovering photos from emptied trash

Is there ANY way to recover photos after the trash has been emptied?
They are not in the Finder folder as I have been reorganizing my computer recently, and the trash has been accidentally emptied prematurely. PLEASE tell me this can be fixed, my enitre iphoto library is gone.

Ok, new mystery.
The File Salvage software is about $80., for anyone reading this thread who interested in their product. My husband pointed out that we have an external backup, and had just used it, so I went looking for the deleted photos on there, and finally found them. The photos have been restored now to the iMac (overwriting their original volumes) and though I can find them in the hard drive, and can see them in Preview, I cannot get iPhoto to display them.
Any suggestions on how to get the iPhoto software to see these "old" photos? Should I have restored them to the Desktop, and then re-imported them into the iPhoto program?
Thanks much for your assistance/advice. It is wonderful to know that someone (or several someones) is/are out there to help those of us not-quite-so-computer-literate folks.
Rose

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