Gift Guide 2026: AirTalk host Larry Mantle's book recommendations

Larry Mantle has been reading books for the air for 41 years. This holiday season, one of his picks is a book about seaweed. Fair enough. Forest of the Sea, by Rising Tide co-host David Helvarg, goes under the waves to the golden kelp forests now dying off the West Coast, and finds people fighting to bring them back.