When it comes to a beginner's book on C++, there's only one choice: Accelerated C++ by Andrew Koenig and Barbara Moo. No other book I've read comes close to the awesomeness of that one as a first book, and I've read pretty much every text on C++ that you're likely to consider for quite some time.
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