Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I had no illusions that this would be an astronomy textbook of any kind, but this literally is a list of things to see and very little else. The actual bulk of the book—the extended text for each thing to see—is a description of how cool it is, and what you will see when looking at it. The problem as a beginner is that it gives me no help whatsoever with my small telescope or the sky. - When should I look for these things? - Where should I look for them? - What level of magnification / which eyepiece is right / what's the best way to get the telescope aimed properly? It's really just not helpful as a practical guide at all. I was expecting instructions and data, i.e. if you're in North America and it's Summer and dark but before midnight, look near the horizon a few degrees north of due east, find constellation X which looks like Y, then pivot about 15 degrees upward. Or something like that. All of these things sound interesting to look at. But I have no more idea how to look at them after reading through the book than I did before reading through the book. So it gave me a tantalizing list of suggestions but no way to act on them—and no references to other ways to find this information. As a beginner, that's key. Do I need other books? Do these things change over time? Is there a website? Something at NASA? Some enthusiast society? I literally have no idea. In simpler terms, I was unable to use this book to accomplish or really to learn anything at all, other than that there are pretty things in the sky. That I knew. That's why I bought a telescope...