Check around your local city to see if there's a SharePoint User's Group.
Then, when you have a specific problem like, "My team want's to store documents, but I have no idea what metadata is" or "My team says they can't find documents on search" or "I need to add this to a page and have no idea how" post over here and we can point you in the right direction.
As everyone has said: Lynda.com is great.
Otherwise, I don't recommend any particular books - but if you really want one then buy the Step-By-Step book. I actually work right next to the largest book store in the pacific northwest, so I'm very familiar with the titles out there. Unfortunately, none of the books do an excellent job clearly illustrating how to build business solutions on SharePoint, and the books that are project-specific aren't great as a reference resource. Then, there's the issue of if you're actually going to crack open a book or if you'll just google for answers - all of the book authors are also bloggers, so what is published in books is typically on the net, too.