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]
(..) and took the horses, so ... ...he was starving, delirious... ...and crawles up into this mud ... ...like the group of trees out there in the middle of nowhere ... ...just sticking up in this ocean of scrub ... ...and he found religion. At that moment... ...he told me... (..)2015 The Revenant