It is something I would like to get into for my free time, is there any education books or anything I can use to learn?

read this forum, use http://www.google.com and http://www.lua.org, use your brain.
at least it helped me.

Start to learn about lua library, even though you might not be familliar with coding, you understand it step by step, try to google or youtube something like: lua for beginners. You may not understand everything but you'll put pieces back together later. Also l2 it's a very nice thing to practice. After learning basics from internet go to l2 tower script help.exe, start recording scripts, see why it does this and that