Alicia, I don't know about the books, since I just got this thing yesterday, but I did spend a couple of hours in the wee hours this morning on
www.photoworkshop.com and it was a fabulous tutorial if you haven't already done it.
I'm having a hard time getting good indoor pictures that aren't coming out blurry...with the tripod. The dang flash keeps popping up, and when I put it on the no flash mode it focuses OK, but not great. Any thoughts? Coming straight off a point and shoot, it is going to take time to learn all the manual focusing, so I need to know this camera can do the trick without me being a camera whiz.
I asked about this in a rebel forum and they thought I was nuts wanting to know why I would want to take portraits without a flash when portrait photographers had all sorts of flashes.