It's not on a network drive.They are all on the drive inside the laptop.
Clarifcation: I have successfully located the books in the My Books folder, and should be able to restore my library from there. For obvious reasons, this makes me very happy. However, I am worried that until I find out what happened this may happen again at any given time. I'd like to prevent that.
When I run Library Maintenance it tells me there is nothing wrong with my library.