If anyone is confused over this thread, here's the story....
I have a another thread running in this section titled, "New Foxtel Series: How the Universe Works". Within that thread I made a comment to Carl and Craig that I wanted to learn more about stars and that I have been searching for books on stars, but have not been able to find any. To that I mentioned that I was going to start up a thread. Apparently Carl thought 30mts was too long to wait, so he beat me to it!
Now, I know why, I had trouble trying to find books on stars - I was using the wrong terminology wasn't I?!
Astrophysics is what I should have been looking under.
In the last couple of months I have become very keen to know more about star formation and death and have been wiki'ing and printing a great deal of info to the point where I thought it was time to get a "real book". Then when I watched the Foxtel programme, "How the Universe Works" and it explained how gold is formed when a star explodes, I got even more hungrier for information. Fascinating stuff this!
So, basically I'm after a book that explains the breakdown of particles, fusion, info on some of those huge giants etc.
Carl, thank you so much for those links, I've had a look at them and I'm going to buy the first one you listed, "Astrophysics is Easy" by Mike Inglis. Only $40.44 (delivered) from The Book Depository. I google previewed it and this exactly what I'm after. I like the fact that this belongs to Patrick Moore's Practical Astronomy Series". This book seems fairly easy to understand, which is important as I'm learning.
Question about this book though: 
When I was Google previewed it, in section 5, he mentions Proxima Centauri to be the second nearest star. I thought it was the first?
And then I was blown away
when he said new information tells us that Proxima isn't part of the Centauri system as first thought - it is merely cruising past.
Woah, learned something within the first 5 mts of previewing.
Craig, yep, it is cheaper to Wikki, hubby thinks I'm crazy buying books when I can Wikki everything, but gosh, at the end of the day, you just can't beat the info a book can give you and it's easy just to pick up and read it no matter where you are. Besides, it wouldn't be Astronomy if we couldn't throw money at it right?!
So, yet another astro purchase!
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