Beginner programmer help.

I've been teaching myself C for a little while and I plan to study programming in university. I was wondering what languages I should try next. I'd rather avoid web development if I can. I saw Microsoft's express books on VB and C# and was thinking of getting one of those. If you guys could suggest some books (titles, authors or publishers) that I could easily find in a book store like Borders (Chapters for me here in Canada though) I would greatly appreciate your help and someday I may be posting here a little bit wiser because of it.

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different versions of C
I smirked ;-) (unless by ``versions'' you mean C99 etc.)

lol, C++ and C# aren't ``versions'' of C; they're different languages.
C++ was supposed to be C with objects (note: C with language support for objects, not object-oriented C), but it didn't really work out so well. It's an abomination of a language, with context-sensitive grammar and un-parseable syntax (though I'm jumping on the ``C++ hate'' bandwagon a bit, let the other /prog/-riders tell you all the specific flaws).
C# is Microsoft's Java, but fixed.