good book on data structures and algorithms...

I used Data Structures and Algorithms in Java by Goodrich. It's a good book, no complaints at all. They all really cover the same data structures, with an advanced one or two. "Introduction to Algorithms" and "How to think about Algorithms" are the two books my school uses for algorithms classes.

Introduction to Algorithms was the book may college used. It is solid and has pseudo code for pretty much every common data structure and algorithm. It also covers big-O, dynamic programming, number theoretic algorithms, and some other material.

any others .. ?

c++ would be better rather than java... also +1 for Big O.

The language of the book should be irrelevant. If it is a good book, it will teach you everything you need to know to implement the algorithms in any language. You can always just look online for implementations anyways. I have not seen the Data Structures in Java book, but I would assume the examples are written using non-Java specific code. If you are familiar with C++, you could probably understand the code just fine and translate it. You would only need to look up a few things, like the syntax for class structure.