Martin's best-selling series A Song of Ice and Fire, the first season of the epic series became the home entertainment industry's best-selling television title for 2012 as well as the fastest selling TV on Blu-ray title of all time.

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Martin's largest "Song of Ice and Fire" novel (the 973-page fan-favorite "A Storm of Swords"), the writer-producer duo are delivering slightly longer episodes to the network.

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Martin, author of the best-selling series "A Song of Ice and Fire, " was signing hundreds of books.

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Speaking at the IMF's headquarters in Washington, Mr Strauss-Kahn also described the current economic situation as between "ice and fire".

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Goodwillie remained ice-cool on the spot-kick as he sent Randolph the wrong way to fire home the equaliser.

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At a conference in Ukraine's Black Sea resort of Yalta, International Monetary Fund Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said the world economy remained stuck "between the ice of recession and the fire of inflation, " and added that while the world financial market crisis was largely over, its consequences would be felt for some time to come.

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Participants on a 10-to-12 mile Tough Mudder course wade through waist-deep mud, crawl under barbed wire, submerge themselves in ice water and jump through fire.

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