Game Programming Books

I have recently finished most of "Game Programming All in One" by Premire Press Game Dev. series. I understood everything in the book, but I had a problem drawing BMP and TIFF images with the game engine provided by the author. When I try to run the breakthrough clone (on 3 computers I have tried), it opens a window and is just a black screen with no sound or anything. Also, when I replace my own BMP image (which I made in Paint Shop Pro) and rename the file the same name as the previous picture (and same image size), the picture will not draw. Does anyone else (who has read the book) have this problem with the Mirus game engine? And another question: Can anyone recommend a good book that comes with a game engine with a ''working'' graphics portion? Either DirectX or OpenGL wouldn''t matter to me. It''s just annoying when you have all the knowledge of a game engine to create a game, but one part doesn''t work. Thanks