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Ah! It seems you are... broadly correct on that one!
Though it gets complicated when you dive into the details... it appeara that exactly which name is being used by which language and people ... involves essentially some ... derogatory puns, slight manipulations of certain vowels/consonants to change the literal meaning of the name.
https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/questions/68544/is-asherah-related-to-ashtoreth#68545
As to books, reading?
I am doing my best (and must admit I am certainly oversimplifying to some extent, and may be making even more errors) ... to put together the totality of what I've absorbed from watching a large number of videos either by or involving Drs. Josh Bowman and Kipp Davis.
Dr. Bowman is digitalhammurabi on youtube, Dr. Kipp Davis is... I think just eponymous?
Both of them together, or each of them singly have often appeared on the MythVision yt channel, Paulogia, more recently Esoterica... and all of those channels also feature many other scholars relevant to near eastern history, religion, language, etc.
I am not sure if Drs. Bowman or Davis have books that outline exactly what I've tried to sum up, but I know they definitely do have scholarly publications and at least some books focused on other topics that end up describing different parts of my summary.
I am not an expert, just a very interested person who follows the experts best I can.