Good book for AS3?

Hi everyone,

I just started with Flash CS4 and AS3 and I've viewed some Lynda.com tutorials, but I keep finding myself in trouble when trying to combine some stuff and come up with my own scripts.

I'm working on a portfolio website which needs dynamic text and images, loaded from outside of Flash (XML?) so I won't have to re-publish my site everytime I want to update the site. And I'd like to combine it with something like Shadowbox (or create something simular myself... no clue how to do it though) for a nice visual when viewing my created art.

Since I'm kinda new to scripting, I wanna ask you if any of you knows a good easy-to-use/easy-to-read book which I can use to create my website, which explains how to create and combine everything I posted above. There are so many books out there and I don't even know where to start since most of them are available online only (which means it's hard to review them before buying) and I don't have unlimited funds to buy them all.

I hope to get some good advice here. Thanks a bunch in advance!