For beginners: best book to learn Garageband 'll

Friends in Garagebandland: I'm looking to find the best book/manual to get up to speed on using Garageband '11. I need to relearn Garageband -- it's been years since I used it -- and I used it with 10.2.4 and learned it with the great missing manual for Version 1. There hasn't been a missing manual for Garageband in ages and the new version looks a lot different from what I was used to.
Will you recommend the best book for a non-techie to take advantage of the new Garageband. I did a bunch of sound poems years ago, using stuff I recorded on a tape recorder and the music that came with Garageband. Let me know. Thanks.
Paul Brucker

Friends in GarageBand land: I'm still looking for that perfect book to help beginners to GarageBand learn GarageBand 11. The suggestion for the book, "GarageBand '11 Power!" -- well, this is not the book. The author is passionate but spends the first 58 pages telling you what he is going to tell you later in the book, so a reader must keep slogging along, not really being told anything, not learning any real how-to tips or new-you-can-use until ... who knows when?
Sadly, this book does not fill the niche for the beginner.
Wish there was a MIssing Manual edition for a later GarageBand issue. I'm picking up how-to tips from various places. The Missing Manual for GarageBand 1.1 was terrific.

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