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The library.
Seriously, if you have a University nearby go to that library. They will have tons of great books on basic theory, harmony and other such things.
For actual books I recommend Paul Hindemith's Elementary Training for Musicians or Arnold Schoenberg's Theory of Harmony, there is also a workbook for the harmony book, but I can't find the link.
Both of these composers were seen as avant garde at the time and some of schoenberg's stuff is difficult to listen to (12 tone), but they both were incredibly influencial writers and educators and their books are pretty much the standard for learning theory that encompasses all of classical music history.
Go to your library, if they have it great! Otherwise interlibrary loan both books and read them. Play your instrument with them and write out some of the things on music manuscript paper for you to remember.
If you really want "general chord relationships," the circle of fifths is basically what you're talking about. In fact, if you look at it, you'll see that the reason that the E minor chord is so close to CM7 is because E minor is the relative minor of G major, C major's dominant key.
I have a feeling that you don't really want a chart that's quite this general, though. What you seem to be talking about is voice leading, a skill that you can learn from any good book on music theory. Maybe try something like Schoenberg's Theory of Harmony and just crib some ideas from the keyboard exercises.
Go for old editions. Clendinning/Marvin's The Musician's Guide to Theory and Analysis is respected and tackles a large number of concepts in reasonable depth. Somebody else mentioned the Schoenberg books. Schoenberg was an excellent composer, thinker, and pedagogue. You may find his works to be in a completely different vein from modern harmony textbooks, but they can be incredibly rewarding to a composer.
Structural Functions of Harmony
Fundamentals of Musical Composition
Harmonielehre
Preliminary Exercises in Counterpoint