For a broker, select one who provides 1K lots ($1,000). They are known as lots. (A miniature lot = $10,000 and a standard lot = $100,000).
There are some deep technical reasons for wanting a micro lot account that you'll learn about later. Take it that that is what you want. I recommend FX Solutions
http://www.fxsol.com/, who is my broker, or you may choose Oanda who is very popular and allows you exchange position sizes much smaller compared to a micro lot.
For your first 3 books, I would recommend, Trading in the Zone by Mark Douglas for plogy, Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom by Van Tharp for cash management, and High Probability Trading by Marcel Link for trading modalities. These three books will get you started about the 3 parts of trading you should have to be prosperous, namely
MIND (plogy and discipline)
MONEY (money management)
METHOD (the mechanisms of trading)
Think of these 3 M's as the legs on a 3 legged stool. The stool will collapse over, if you're missing any of the three, and you'll fail.
Open a demo account with your broker of choice. Don't open a account with cash yet. Pick one of the systems listed in the Trading Systems thread of this, the Beginners Forum. Trade that system on demonion until you're consistently profitable. Trade the demonion exactly like you'll trade. The habits you develop from the demonion will subconciously carry over into your live trading. Therefore don't be cluttered with your presentation or you be cluttered with live and you'll lose all of your cash.
Dial