The book is 'nowhere to be found'. = The book is 'nowhere to be seen'. = The book is 'nowhere in sight'.
We got lost 'in the middle of nowhere'. [=in a place far away from other people, houses, etc.]
They live 'miles from nowhere'. [=they live in a place that is very far from other people]
(..) believe none of us - Where is your father? - At home, my lord Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the fool nowhere but in his own house Oh help him, you sweet heavens If thou dost many, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, (..)2015 Hamlet