A good book to get for a quilter starting out is Quilter's Complete Guide by Marianne Fons and Liz Porter
This link will take you to Amazon's site to get the book at a really low cost. If you go to the hard cover version to page 2 there is a like new copy for $5.00 plus shipping. I like the hard copy as it is spiral bound and you can open it flat.
http://tinyurl.com/a8gwgdk