Reddit mentions of The Photographer's Mind: Creative Thinking for Better Digital Photos

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• Michael Freeman - The Photographer's Eye: Composition and Design for Better Digital Photos
  
  
• Michael Freeman - The Photographer's Mind: Creative Thinking for Better Digital Photos

This one sounds quite good too actually.
"In this volume, Freeman contemplates what makes a photo gripping, appealing, or beautiful, breaking subject matter, lighting, and composition into component parts and defining and discussing each. Filled with examples at each step, the elements of a photo are organized into three sections - intent, style, and process -

Quasi-newbie myself with a similar rig (d5100):

• One of the problems you will have the stock (kit) lens is the amount of light that you are going to be able to get indoors. I think the 35 mm 1.8 is a very fun lens for some inside experimentation.
  
  
• My favorite books are Bryan Peterson's Understanding Exposure; Michael Freeman's The Photographer's Eye; and his The Photographer's Mind. I think the latter two are great introductions to the ideas around composition.

http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/d7000/users-guide/

http://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Nikon-D7000-Darrell-Young/dp/1933952806

http://www.amazon.com/Nikon-D7000-Snapshots-Great-Shots/dp/0321766547

http://www.amazon.com/David-Buschs-Nikon-Digital-Photography/dp/1435459423

http://www.amazon.com/The-Photographers-Mind-Creative-Thinking/dp/0240815173

Books on composition. Start with this, move on to this and this, and when you feel you're ready for more advanced stuff get this.

The world is full of people who spend thousands of dollars and years of their lives taking technically perfect photos of their cat. Don't end up like them.